This weeks gaming podcast fills the hour of show with a lot of side tangents and off-topic discussions, thanks to some of the listener feedback. You’ll learn how Zynga and Facebook resemble the Mega Powers relationship with Hulk Hogan and Randy “Macho Man” Savage. Some of the news for the week includes:
Customize guitar instruments in the new Guitar Hero
This week’s question of the week: What will get you into the Guitar Hero series? RPG-style play? Huge song collection? Or, perhaps multiple mics with keyboard play get you back into the genre?
Yes, we recorded this episode live on YouTube. We spoke about Minecraft dropping VR support next year, Ubisoft Montpellier disbanded, Obsidian saying choices both big and small will matter in Avowed, ColdRidge – a game about cowboys doing 4x-style exploration — hits release, and Yakuza Kiwami has sold far over studio director’s expectations on Switch.
The news includes:
Metaphor: ReFantazio director Katsura Hashino is already working on a new game
Sony wanted to lock Crimson Desert into a timed PlayStation exclusivity deal
This week the guys have gotten back to talking about games from the past, as this week the Gaming Flashback is 2008’s Braid, Jonathan Blow’s influential indie game, which was followed by The Witness, which was… less influential. The guys also keep drooling over Red Dead Redemption 2.
The news items include:
Forza Horizon devs recruit staff for unannounced RPG